On the tenth day of Hogswatch, your Seanan gave away...

[seanan_mcguire]

…your choice of the anthologies I can find in my office!

Hello, lovely people and terrifying couch gremlins, and welcome to the Thirteen Days of Hogswatch, the game where the points are made up but the rules really do matter.  Starting on the 1st and continuing for the next three days, I will be posting a daily giveaway to help us all celebrate the festive winter spirit.  Here are a few things you should know:

1. Every post will have its own prize, and its own rules.  This is to filter out people linked here from the “hey, free stuff!” blogs, who are less interested in our prizes than they are in the fact that they don’t cost anything.

2. Unclaimed prizes will not be redistributed, they will be returned to my office to think about what they did.

3. I cannot afford international postage.  If you are outside the US/Canada, you must state your willingness to pay postage in your entry.

4. All posts are automatically mirrored to my Dreamwidth journal, but only comments left on the root post (at seananmcguire.com/blog) are eligible to win.

So here.  We.  GO!

Our tenth prize this year is a little up in the air.  I write a lot of short fiction, and keeping up with my anthology output is difficult.  Even I sometimes get sort of overwhelmed.  So this drawing is for an anthology of the winner’s choice, within the limits of what I can find in my office.  If you win, I will ask you for your top five, and do my best to find one of them on the shelves.  If I can’t, we’ll keep going until something meshes up.  To enter…

1. Comment on this  post.

2. Name the first short story you remember reading.

3. If you are outside the US/Canada, verify your willingness to pay postage.

All winners will be selected at 12PT on December 14th.  So now, as the sages say…

…GAME ON!

Comments

[melchar]

Comment: This is cool, since I don't have every single anthology that you have published in.

The first short story** I remember reading on my own, for fun, was EAPoe's 'The Telltale Heart' when I was about 4. I recall that the book was snatched from my little chubby hands by the lady who ran a daycare/preschool from her house [in 1960] and she tried telling me that I wanted to read something nice. I wanted the book back. Since she had made the mistake of explaining letters & reading to me, it was her own fault. ^_^

And - living in California

[** the first book I had read shortly before then. It was 'The Bobby Twins go to the Seashore'. So I think this was what she meant by 'nice'.]

[alexseanchai]

4. All posts are automatically mirrored to my Dreamwidth journal, but only comments left on the root post (at seananmcguire.com/blog) are eligible to win.

*helpful*

[melchar]

Thank you! [fixed now]